Would you use a white snorkel?

  • If you actually needed a snorkel and had the same one available in black, green, red, blue and white, can you really see yourself forking out the cash and taking the white? Not trying to convince or criticize, just looking for a serious answer. It's true white is most visible at depth looking down from the top. A lot of speargun handles are white, makes the gun easy to spot in dirty water.

  • I would choose white. Spotting divers from a boat is hard. I often see someone because of the little orange tip or a flash from the reflective sticker. I would def choose white all other things being equal

    i like to spear fish

  • I personally would not. I agree that white is the best to show under water, but my experience with setting shrimp and crab pots white buoys can be a pain to find compared to orange or bright green. The worst is if it is white caping or any foam on the water it makes it the much harder.

  • Yeah, as the guy usually driving the boat looking for DuQuesnay and the boys, white seems like it would be harder to see in choppy seas with white caps. Which is most times we're out.

  • I personally would not. I agree that white is the best to show under water, but my experience with setting shrimp and crab pots white buoys can be a pain to find compared to orange or bright green. The worst is if it is white caping or any foam on the water it makes it the much harder.


    Agreed, when its choppy white gets mixed up with wave chop. I was referring more to when youre spotting for someone during there dive. While any neon color can probably come so close to white in visibility the difference is negligible, I just like white.

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  • No, same as treebilly and hank said, that snorkel would be invisible and my opinion on dive spotting my buddy with a white snorkel is, if I can't see a person underwater what chance in hell do I have of spotting a snorkel?

    A bad day at sea is better than a good day in the boatyard
    George Steele

  • I got a Florence Green snorkel, I wrapped yellow bands of top on top for buddies to spot me on surface. The green on the bottom reflected in my eyes, I wrapped it with some type of black rubber tape, it's perfect now.


    I don't like purge valves nor the springy tube corrugated material either, I like a super basic snorkel, and a good mouth fit is important to me.


    I've toss all of those type snorkel I have had.


    I never kick the snorkel out of my mouth either, I see many doing it, doesn't make any sense to me.

  • I never kick the snorkel out of my mouth either, I see many doing it, doesn't make any sense to me.


    Linghunt---many spearos, research and past experiences lead many spearos to believe that removing the snorkel from ones mouth while underwater lessens the likelihood of drowning if the spearo has a SWB
    hope this helps

  • Linghunt---many spearos, research and past experiences lead many spearos to believe that removing the snorkel from ones mouth while underwater lessens the likelihood of drowning if the spearo has a SWB
    hope this helps


    thanks for intell. I thought most SWB would happen post dive in like 3-5 min. I would think the diver would be back using the snorkel again while on surface. Perhaps you are referring to the % of accidents when diver is underwater. I'll do some reading on it to educate myself better.


    I never push myself. If I'm underwater for 60 seconds, that's a long dive for me. I don't like having the need for air in my diving, by pushing it farther. Then again, I only go 30 foot at the most at my age now. I don't hyperventilate.


    Remember I'm in cold murky water as well with swells and surf. This year hasn't been too bad, but typically have a dozen drownings off the Northern CA coast each year. Most of those I think are from panic and kelp tangles over SWB. Lots of folks diving for abalone that should not be in the water. This is a hazardous coast line.

  • Linghunt,


    I think most SWB happens just below the surface(last 30' on ascent). So if your snorkel is in your mouth while you're surfacing and you happen to SWB, now you have a tube in your mouth keeping your passage way open dumping water down your throat and into your lungs. If you had the snorkel out of your mouth then your body would naturally go into 'survival' mode during SWB and close this passage for certain amount of time(I think minutes) so that your lungs do not fill with water right away, which would allow a rescue attempt within reasonable response time(good dive buddy).


    We had a diver die down here from drowning during the first day of lobster mini-season this year, July 30 & 31 2014, in 40' of water.


    Dive safe,


    Chase

    Relax & Go Spearfishing

  • I won't choose a white snorkel. I would buy a red camo/Marroon instead. Highly visible at the surface and fades out in the depth.


    "Predator snorkel" :thumbsup2:

    Marco Melis

    A bad day fishing is ALWAYS better than a good day at work.

  • I won't choose a white snorkel. I would buy a red camo/Marroon instead. Highly visible at the surface and fades out in the depth.


    "Predator snorkel" :thumbsup2:


    I agree!
    The fish in our waters are sometimes skittish when they see anything white. My poly floatline was plain and bright white in color... I never saw any good fish while using that haha


    I prefer camo/black on anything dive related. So in response to the thread's question; No, I would not use a white snorkel.
    Dan, I don't know whether there would be a market for a white snorkel. I'm sure some divers might like it, but why choose a white one when you can have "cool" black:cool2:, or camo?


  • I prefer camo/black on anything dive related. So in response to the thread's question; No, I would not use a white snorkel.
    Dan, I don't know whether there would be a market for a white snorkel. I'm sure some divers might like it, but why choose a white one when you can have "cool" black:cool2:, or camo?


    If you think you are a ninja, then you are a ninja! Black all day!


    :toast: Chase


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  • Diving murky water I wear a white rashguard. I still get fish, and it's easy for my buddies to see my fat ass.

  • Diving murky water I wear a white rashguard. I still get fish, and it's easy for my buddies to see my fat ass.


    Exactly, I would use white and wrap bottom in black for eye refection. If it had other features removed I would buy one and if I lost this one. Had this one 20 years or so.

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